Monday, March 29, 2010

For his first birthday, my Dad (Popa) got him real keyboard, which he loved until he realized mine actually worked.

Now he will take his keyboard off the desk, drop it on the floor and point to mine, which I have put far out of his reach.

I would imagine he likes mine better because it actually does things– one button turns on the search function, another button pulls up the Internet and email. When he types and Word is up, characters appear on the page, and if you hold down a key long enough, it beeps.

It’s all quite exciting for a toddler.

The baby has done key commands that I didn’t know existed - and can’t repeat - such as locking the keyboard or, as happened last night, somehow changing the monitor setting.Let me explain.

I have a wide-screen monitor. It’s fantastic. I can see the entire web page without having to scroll from side to side.

Not any longer.

My little guy has somehow made the page go in the opposite direction.

So instead of my page being more wide then long, it’s now more long then wide. It’s like my son has turned the screen so the top is shorter than the sides. But the physical screen is still wider than it is long so in order to see the page, you have to twist your.

The mouse is hard to use as well, likely because the screen is going in the wrong direction.

6 comments:

Okay... I am no computer wiz; so I may be wrong. But I have had this problem with my computer before, and there are usually some buttons at the bottom on underneath the monitor that change that kind of settings. I dont know which buttons, just play around with em. LOL

It sounds like he got into the control panel... you can access all the display controls from in there... I'd head in and look for the display settings and look for a return to default settings... My laptop also has screen settings at F7... he may have hit that to change it...

If you want to encourage him to play on something educational, try www.fisher-price.com's online fun and games section - my sons faves at that age were the alphabet zoo game and the peek a boo game...